Law Guide: Secondary Resources
Readings & past exams
Click on the link above then search for readings by typing in the subject code or subject name. Your readings may also be linked in your LearnJCU subject site.
If you are having trouble accessing readings remember there is more than one pathway available to you.
Click on the link above then search for past exams by subject code.
Past exams are not available for all subjects.
Legal dictionaries & encyclopedias
Butt, P. J. (2011). LexisNexis Australian legal dictionary (4th ed.). Sydney: LexisNexis Butterworths.
Held in TSV and CNS Libraries: call number: R 349.9403 BUT 2011
Osborn, P. G. (2005). Osborn's concise law dictionary (10th ed.). London: Sweet and Maxwell.
Held in TSV and CNS Libraries: call number: R 340.03 OSB 2005
The laws of Australia Westlaw AU
Mann, T. (2013). Australian law dictionary (2nd ed.). South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.
Held in both CNS and TSV 349.9403 MAN 2013 and 349.9403 MAN 2013 R
Mann, T. (2013). Australian law dictionary (2nd ed.). Oxford Reference Online
Why can't I just Google for Law resources?
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Useful databases for finding secondary legal information
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Informit AGIS Plus Text
Attorney General's Information Service. Covers all aspects of law and is produced by the AGIS Section of the Lionel Murphy Library, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department in Canberra.
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Westlaw AUProvides full-text access to Australian primary legal materials - case law, statutes and reports including Commonwealth Law Reports, Federal Court Reports, Federal Law Reports, Australian Tax Reports, Australian Criminal Reports, Local Government and Environment Reports of Australia and unreported judgments from a number of jurisdictions.
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Lexis Advance Pacific
Lexis Advance Pacific is the new platform that has replaced LexisNexis AU. It provides access to JCU library subscribed legal publications, including Carter's Criminal Law of Queensland, New South Wales Law Reports, and Queensland Reports. -
Thomson Reuters Westlaw
Thomson Reuters Westlaw (Formerly Westlaw International) provides full-text access to American and International primary law materials. Users can access United Kingdom full-text legal material through the International section. -
Lexis Advance Indexes more than 700 major mainly UK and US law journals, reports and newspapers, that cover the interpretation and analysis of laws, cases, statutes, legal trends, and law firm management. Indexing is from 1977 onwards. Does include some Australian content.
Open Access Law Journals
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German Law JournalAn open access - peer-reviewed Forum for scholarship on transnational law & transnational encounters with German, European & international jurisprudence
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Open Access Law Adopting JournalsThe following journals have adopted the Open Access Law Journal Principles or have policies consistent with them
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Legal Scholarship NetworkLSN is part of the Social Science Research Network.
SSRN's objective is to provide worldwide distribution of research to authors and their readers and to facilitate communication among them at the lowest possible cost.
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